(Whispers - I think you mean River Song Chris, River Pheonix was the actor that od'd outside the restaurant in America years ago.)

You are totally right though when you say Doctor Who is not a kids programme I don't miss an episode and I was 34 yesterday. Also it seems to have gone a bit dark recently and the silence scared me quite a bit.

meerkat wrote:Ankle biters, knee butters and elbow chewers* like to be scared. Cos they know in the end it'll be ok.

I used to hide when the daleks came on the screen. Ah the days of B/W! Made it scarier too!

*height of said child.

Me and Kay (my bestie as a small child and the daughter of the man who owned one of the only two TV sets in town) watched the whole of our first encounter with Dr Who and the Daleks from behind her couch and the wall with a blanket over our heads clutching each other in terror!

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